inclusiveness in the modern Swiss Church
In Switzerland it is traditional on the Epiphany to go round your house blessing it for the new year, finishing with the symbols C+M+B written above your front door.
As with all the other Catholic holy days which run the risk of passing by unmarked by Zoe and Bruno, Bruno's mother dutifully brought us the necessary holy incense and some chalk. With the incense came a little leaflet explaining how to go around your house, what to say etc, which somebody had thoughtfully brightened up by adding a drawing of the three wise men at the top.
"I'd better not forget to make one of them a black man!" thought the artist. "Not in this day and age of multicultural Switzerland! If it's good enough for the renaissance artists, it's good enough for Village Bruno!"
So he drew a golliwog.
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